Computer-implemented systems configured for automated machine learning contact priority prediction for electronic messages and methods of use thereof

ABSTRACT

In order to facilitate automatic message prioritization, systems and methods are described including a processor that receives electronic messages, where each electronic message is associated with a sender and a recipient. The processor utilizes a message prioritization machine learning model to predict a current prioritized ordering of the electronic messages based on parameters associated with each electronic message, where the parameters include a calendar event parameter representing a calendar event associated with each electronic message, a personnel parameter associated with the sender of each electronic message, and a message subject parameter associated with a subject of each electronic message, where the current prioritized ordering includes an order of notification of each electronic message according to priority based on an interaction history of historical electronic messages associated with the sender The processor causes to display the electronic messages according to the current prioritized ordering.

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FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY

The present disclosure generally relates to improved computer-basedsystems devices, components and objects configured for automated contactpriority prediction for electronic messaging and methods of use thereof.

BACKGROUND OF TECHNOLOGY

A computer network platform/system may include a group of computers(e.g., clients, servers, smart routers) and other computing hardwaredevices that are linked together through one or more communicationchannels to facilitate communication or resource-sharing, via one ormore specifically programmed graphical user interfaces (GUIs), among awide range of users.

SUMMARY OF DESCRIBED SUBJECT MATTER

In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplarycomputer-based method that includes at least the following steps ofaccessing, by at least one processor, a plurality of electronic messagesresiding in an electronic inbox associated with a recipient, wherein theplurality of electronic messages are associated with at least onesender; utilizing, by the at least one processor, a messageprioritization machine learning model to predict a current prioritizedordering of the plurality of electronic messages based at least in parton a plurality of parameters associated with each of the plurality ofelectronic messages; wherein the plurality of parameters comprise: i) atleast one calendar event parameter that represents a calendar eventassociated with a respective electronic message, ii) at least onepersonnel parameter associated with the sender of the respectiveelectronic message, and iii) at least one message subject parameterassociated with a subject of the respective electronic message; whereinthe current prioritized ordering comprises an order of notification ofeach electronic message of the at least one electronic message accordingto a message priority of each electronic message at a current time;wherein the message priority of each respective electronic message ofthe at least one electronic message is based on an interaction historyassociated with historical electronic messages associated with eachrespective sender; and causing to display, by the at least oneprocessor, the plurality of electronic messages according to the currentprioritized ordering on a screen of at least one computing deviceassociated with the recipient.

In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplarycomputer-based method that includes at least the following steps ofreceiving, by at least one processor, at least one a plurality ofelectronic messages residing in an electronic inbox associated with arecipient, wherein each at least one the plurality of electronicmessages is are associated with at least one sender and a recipient;generating, by the at least one processor, a set of message dataassociated with each at least one electronic message of the plurality ofelectronic messages; wherein each respective set of message datacomprises: i) at least one sender indicator representing the respectivesender of each respective at least one electronic message, and ii) atleast one message subject indicator representing a respective subject ofeach respective at least one electronic message; transmitting, by the atleast one processor, each respective set of message data to a messageprioritization system; wherein the message prioritization systemcomprises at least one message prioritization processor configured to:utilize a message prioritization machine learning model to predict acurrent prioritized ordering of the plurality of electronic messages atleast one electronic message based at least in part on a plurality ofparameters associated with each of the at least one electronic messageeach of the plurality of electronic messages; wherein the plurality ofparameters comprise: i) at least one calendar event parameter thatrepresents a calendar event associated with a respective electronicmessage, ii) at least one personnel parameter associated with the atleast one sender indicator of each respective electronic message, andiii) at least one message subject parameter associated with the at leastone message subject indicator of each respective electronic message;wherein the current prioritized ordering comprises an order ofnotification of each electronic message of the plurality of electronicmessages at least one electronic message according to a message priorityof each electronic message at a current time; wherein the messagepriority of each respective electronic message of the plurality ofelectronic messages at least one electronic message is based on aninteraction history associated with historical electronic messagesassociated with each respective sender; and transmit the currentprioritized ordering to the at least one processor; and causing todisplay, by the at least one processor, the plurality of electronicmessages at least one electronic message according to the currentprioritized ordering on a screen in communication with the at least oneprocessor.

In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplarycomputer-based system that includes at least the following components ofa non-transitory computer-readable memory having instructions storedthereon, and at least one processor in communication with thenon-transitory computer-readable memory and configured to perform theinstructions. The instructions include: access a plurality of electronicmessages residing in an electronic inbox associated with a recipient,wherein the plurality of electronic messages are associated with atleast one sender; utilize a message prioritization machine learningmodel to predict a current prioritized ordering of the plurality ofelectronic messages based at least in part on a plurality of parametersassociated with each of the plurality of electronic messages; whereinthe plurality of parameters comprise: i) at least one calendar eventparameter that represents a calendar event associated with a respectiveelectronic message, ii) at least one personnel parameter associated withthe sender of the respective electronic message, and iii) at least onemessage subject parameter associated with a subject of the respectiveelectronic message; wherein the current prioritized ordering comprisesan order of notification of each electronic message of the at least oneelectronic message according to a message priority of each electronicmessage at a current time; wherein the message priority of eachrespective electronic message of the at least one electronic message isbased on an interaction history associated with historical electronicmessages associated with each respective sender; and cause to displaythe plurality of electronic messages according to the currentprioritized ordering on a screen of at least one computing deviceassociated with the recipient.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Various embodiments of the present disclosure can be further explainedwith reference to the attached drawings, wherein like structures arereferred to by like numerals throughout the several views. The drawingsshown are not necessarily to scale, with emphasis instead generallybeing placed upon illustrating the principles of the present disclosure.Therefore, specific structural and functional details disclosed hereinare not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a representativebasis for teaching one skilled in the art to variously employ one ormore illustrative embodiments.

FIGS. 1-8 show one or more schematic flow diagrams, certaincomputer-based architectures, or screenshots of various specializedgraphical user interfaces which are illustrative of some exemplaryaspects of at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

FIG. 1 through 8 illustrate systems and methods of meeting reschedulingpredictions using machine learning techniques and databaseintercommunication. The following embodiments provide technicalsolutions or technical improvements that overcome technical problems,drawbacks or deficiencies in the technical fields involving electronicmessage organization and automated sorting, surfacing and presentationof received messages in a robust, accurate and efficient manner toimprove the performance and usability of electronic messaging programsand applications, among others. As explained in more detail, below,technical solutions or technical improvements herein include aspects ofmessage tracking and correlation to related data beyond the electronicmessages themselves using machine learning to correlate each receivedelectronic message with related data affecting importance of eachmessage by coordinating various databases and data sources to ingestholistic message contexts for more accurate and powerful prioritypredictions to improve sorting, surfacing and presentation of electronicmessages in an electronic messaging application. Based on such technicalfeatures, further technical benefits become available to users andoperators of these systems and methods. Moreover, various practicalapplications of the disclosed technology are also described, whichprovide further practical benefits to users and operators that are alsonew and useful improvements in the art.

FIG. 1 depicts a diagram of an exemplary illustrative collaborationsystem according to an illustrative embodiment of the present invention.

In some embodiments, a collaboration system 100 access schedule andcommunication data associated with users to facilitate collaborationbetween and amongst the users by providing collaborative services andfunctions. In some embodiments, the collaboration services includepredictions as to various collaborative interactions, such as, e.g.,predicting optimum meeting schedules, email prioritization, taskschedules and prioritization, among other collaboration services, andgenerating electronic calendar and electronic communication items, suchas, electronic calendar meeting invites, electronically bookinglocations such as meeting rooms, and electronically ordering andprioritizing communication. In some embodiments, the collaborationsystem 100 may automatically convey the prediction to each user involvedwith the collaborative interaction at a respective user computing device160.

In some embodiments, the user computing device 160 may include apersonal computer, a mobile computing device such as a tablet orsmartphone, among other computing devices. In some embodiments, theremay be a plurality of user computing devices 160 in communication withthe collaboration system 100, such as, e.g., between about 1 and about10 computing devices, between about 1 and about 20 computing devices,between about 1 and about 100 computing devices, or any other number ofcomputing devices for providing collaboration services to each user of,e.g., a set of customers, an organization such as a company,corporation, foundation, family, social club, school, university,government agency, or other organization, a set of organizations, orother group of users.

In some embodiments, the collaboration system 100 receives data frommultiple data sources related to user schedules, relationships andcommunication to facilitate comprehensive and accurate prediction ofcollaboration characteristics for automatically initiating collaborativeinteractions. In some embodiments, the data may include, e.g., usercalendar data, organizational personnel data, user location data,meeting room data, user email data, user task data, user work productdata, among other task, communication and schedule data. Accordingly, insome embodiments, the collaboration system 100 receives the usercalendar data, the organizational personnel data, the user locationdata, the meeting room data, the user email data, the user task data,and the user work product data from a calendar database 101, anorganization database 102, a location database 103, a meeting roomdatabase 104, an email database 105, a task database 106, and a workproduct database 107, respectively.

In some embodiments, the calendar database 101 may include a virtualcalendar associated with each user in communication with thecollaboration system 100 via a respective user computing device 160. Thevirtual calendar may include scheduled meetings and appointments,out-of-office periods, scheduled vacations, working hours, among othercalendar-related data of each user in communication with collaborationsystem 100. In some embodiments, the virtual calendar may includescheduling information such as, e.g., availability and meeting history(e.g., cancellations, rescheduled meetings, relocated meeting, etc.)that are represented in a calendar program associated with each user.Examples of such calendar programs may include but are not limited to,e.g., Microsoft™ Outlook™, Google™ Calendar, Apple™ Calendar, IBM™Notes, among other programs having virtual calendaring functions.Information entered into such programs may be stored in the calendardatabase 101 to aggregate scheduling information for use by thecollaboration system 100.

In some embodiments, the organization database 102 may include a virtualorganization chart or other representation of position hierarchyassociated with each user in communication with the collaboration system100 via a respective user computing device 160. The virtual organizationchart may include a hierarchy of personnel in an organization and anorganization structure, including, e.g., entry-level personnel upthrough senior management and executives.

In some embodiments, the location database 103 may include arepresentation of a location of each user in communication with thecollaboration system 100 via a respective user computing device 160. Thelocation may include, e.g., a latitude and longitude, a street address,a building identification, a room identification within a building, afloor within a building, among others and combinations thereof.

In some embodiments, the meeting room database 104 may include a list ofpossible meeting rooms and a representation of a location of each roomlisted as a possible meeting room. The location may include, e.g., alatitude and longitude, a street address, a building identification, aroom identification within a building, a floor within a building, amongothers and combinations thereof.

In some embodiments, the email database 105 may include, e.g., anarchive of sent and received emails associated with each user incommunication with the collaboration system 100. In some embodiments,the emails may include, e.g., metadata, text, attachments, media,recipients, senders, carbon-copy (CC) recipients, among other dataassociated with each email. In some embodiments, the emails may beextracted or otherwise received from an email program or serviceassociated with each user. Examples of such email programs or servicesmay include but are not limited to, e.g., Microsoft™ Outlook™, Google™Gmail™, Apple™ Mail, IBM™ Notes, among other email programs andservices. Information entered into such programs may be stored in thecalendar database 101 to aggregate scheduling information for use by thecollaboration system 100.

In some embodiments, the task database 106 may include a history of worktasks assigned to each user. In some embodiments, the history mayinclude, e.g., start dates, completion dates, start times, completiontimes, task subject, task project, collaborators or team-matesassociated with each task, among other task related data. In someembodiments, the task database 106 may receive the task history fromproject management, task management and task tracking platforms andprograms, such as, e.g., Jira™, Microsoft Dynamics™, NetSuite™,Launchpad™, among others and combinations thereof.

In some embodiments, the work product database 107 may include a historyof work product produced by each user in communication with thecollaboration system 100. In some embodiments, the work product mayinclude completed projects, such as, e.g., papers, administrativedocuments, published documents, documents submitted to, e.g.,supervisors or project management platforms as complete, source code,software releases, among other types of work product. The work productdatabase 107 may include, e.g., a document repository, a documentstorage, a cloud storage platform, a server database, a distributeddatabase, among others.

As used herein, a “database” refers to any suitable type of database orstorage system for storing data. A database may include centralizedstorage devices, a distributed storage system, a blockchain network, andothers, including a database managed by a database management system(DBMS). In some embodiments, an exemplary DBMS-managed database may bespecifically programmed as an engine that controls organization,storage, management, or retrieval of data in the respective database. Insome embodiments, the exemplary DBMS-managed database may bespecifically programmed to provide the ability to query, backup andreplicate, enforce rules, provide security, compute, perform change andaccess logging, or automate optimization. In some embodiments, theexemplary DBMS-managed database may be chosen from Oracle database, IBMDB2, Adaptive Server Enterprise, FileMaker, Microsoft Access, MicrosoftSQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and a NoSQL implementation. In someembodiments, the exemplary DBMS-managed database may be specificallyprogrammed to define each respective schema of each database in theexemplary DBMS, according to a particular database model of the presentdisclosure which may include a hierarchical model, network model,relational model, object model, or some other suitable organization thatmay result in one or more applicable data structures that may includefields, records, files, or objects. In some embodiments, the exemplaryDBMS-managed database may be specifically programmed to include metadataabout the data that is stored.

In some embodiments, the collaboration system 100 may include models forperforming multiple collaborative services. In some embodiments, thecollaboration system 100 includes a calendaring model 110 to, e.g.,automatically schedule, reschedule and cancel meetings, appointments,out-of-office periods, unavailability periods, and other virtualcalendar items associated with users based on data from one or more ofthe calendar database 101, the organization database 102, the locationdatabase 103, the meeting room database 104, the email database 105, thetask database 106, and the work product database 107. In someembodiments, the calendaring model 110 may include, e.g., machinelearning models, such as, e.g., one or more exemplary AI/machinelearning techniques chosen from, but not limited to, decision trees,boosting, support-vector machines, neural networks, nearest neighboralgorithms, Naive Bayes, bagging, random forests, and the like. In someembodiments and, optionally, in combination of any embodiment describedabove or below, an exemplary neutral network technique may be one of,without limitation, feedforward neural network, radial basis functionnetwork, recurrent neural network, convolutional network (e.g., U-net)or other suitable network. In some embodiments and, optionally, incombination of any embodiment described above or below, an exemplaryimplementation of Neural Network may be executed as follows:

-   -   i) Define Neural Network architecture/model,    -   ii) Transfer the input data to the exemplary neural network        model,    -   iii) Train the exemplary model incrementally,    -   iv) determine the accuracy for a specific number of timesteps,    -   v) apply the exemplary trained model to process the        newly-received input data,    -   vi) optionally and in parallel, continue to train the exemplary        trained model with a predetermined periodicity.

In some embodiments, the calendaring model 110 may, e.g., employ theAI/machine learning techniques to predict an optimum meeting betweenattendees based on, e.g., location data, meeting room data, and scheduleinformation including, e.g., calendar data such as availability andmeeting history (e.g., cancellations, rescheduling, etc.) among others.Based on such data received from, e.g., the calendar database 101, thelocation database 103, and the meeting room database 104, the machinelearning model may predict a place and time that is least likely to becancelled or rescheduled. In some embodiments, the machine learningmodel may incorporate organizational hierarchies from the organizationdatabase 102 to prioritize the schedule and location of attendees higherin the hierarchy.

In some embodiments, the calendaring model 110 may employ the machinelearning model or AI/machine learning techniques as described above toreschedule cancelled meetings. Such rescheduled meetings may berescheduled automatically based on, e.g., location data, meeting roomdata, and schedule information including, e.g., calendar data such asavailability and meeting history (e.g., cancellations, rescheduling,etc.) among others, from the location database 103, the meeting roomdatabase 104 or the calendar database 101.

In some embodiments, the collaboration system 100 includes an emailingmodel 120 to, e.g., determine an order of priority of received emails.In some embodiments, the collaboration system 100 may receive electronicmessages, including emails, instant message communications, simplemessage service (SMS) messages, among other electronic message formats.In some embodiments, the emailing model 120 may receive or determineindicators of attributes of the electronic messages, such as, e.g.,sender, recipient or recipients, carbon-copied (cc′ d) recipients,subject line text, electronic message text, attached files or media,hyperlinks, urgency markers, read-receipts, associated conversations foreach electronic message, related calendar events, such as a calendarevent created with the electronic message or a calendar event for whichthe electronic message is a response, among other attributes. In someembodiments, the emailing model 120 may include, e.g., AI/machinelearning techniques, such as those described above, to form parametersfrom one or more of the attributes, such as, e.g., subject line text,sender including data from the organization database 102, and relatedcalendar events including calendar data from the calendar database 101by correlating each of the attributes with a likelihood of the userviewing, responding to, forwarding, deleting, delaying, or otherwiseinteracting with the electronic message.

In some embodiments, using the parameters, the AI/machine learningtechniques of the emailing model 120 may predict a level of priority ofeach electronic message. In some embodiments, the level of priority maybe a priority scale, such as a numeric scale in a range of between about1 and about 10, between about 1 and about 5, between about 1 and about100, or other range. In some embodiments, the level of priority mayinclude a relative level of priority, where the emailing model 120 rankseach electronic message according to a relative priority level comparedto each other electronic message. Accordingly, in some embodiments, auser may be presented with a list of electronic messages in an order ofpriority such that the most important or actionable electronic messagesmay be presented first.

In some embodiments, the collaboration system 100 includes a locatingmodel 130 to, e.g., optimize a location of a meeting based on, e.g.,location data from the location database 103 and meeting room data fromthe meeting room database 104. In some embodiments, the locating model130 employs AI/machine learning techniques, such as those describedabove, to predict an optimum location for a meeting that will reduce thelikelihood of the meeting being cancelled, rescheduled or relocated. Insome embodiments, the optimum location depends on a location of eachattendee to a meeting as well as a location of each available meetingroom for the meeting. In some embodiments, the locating model 130 mayalso take into account meeting room resources, such as, e.g., videoconferencing equipment, technology support, size, furniture, among otherfeatures of a meeting room. In some embodiments, the predicted optimumlocation can be provided to the calendar model 110, which may, in turn,automatically schedule a meeting using the predicted optimum meetinglocation.

In some embodiments, the collaboration system 100 includes a task model140 to, e.g., automatically schedule calendar events to perform a taskassociated with one or more meetings based on, e.g., email data from theemail database 105 associated with emails related to the meetings, taskdata from the task database 106 associated with current and past tasksof each attendee, and work product data from the work product database107 associated with completed work product of each attendee. In someembodiments, the task model 140 interacts with the calendar model 110 todetermine tasks associated with an upcoming meeting, a time to completethe tasks, and attendees associated with the task. To do so, in someembodiments, the task model 140 employs AI/machine learning techniques,such as those described above, to predict a task parameter leading up tothe meeting. The task parameter can be used by the calendar model 110 toautomatically determine a task time and location for the associatedattendees to complete the task prior to the meeting. In an embodiment,the calendar model 110 may then automatically schedule the task time andlocation each attendee's respective calendar to facilitate private,uninterrupted work time.

FIG. 2 depicts a diagram of an emailing model for an exemplaryillustrative automated email management system in accordance with anillustrative embodiment of the present invention.

In some embodiments, a collaboration system 200 includes an emailingmodel 220 in communication with collaboration databases, such as, acalendar database 201, an organization database 202, an email database205 and a task database 206, among other suitable databases forproviding information for email or other communication management. Insome embodiments, each of the collaboration databases may include datain a suitable format, such as, e.g., tables, text, tuples, arrays, etc.Each data item in the collaboration databases may also include metadataassociated with information such as, e.g., origin of the data,destination, format, time and date, geographic location information,source identifier (ID), among other information.

In some embodiments, the emailing model 220 may leverage the data in thecollaboration databases, including associated metadata, to predictmessage priority, such as most time-sensitive communications orcommunications likely to require the most attention based on schedulinginformation related to senders and recipients of the communication,related calendar events and times thereof, previous related messages,open work tasks and urgency thereof, among other data.

In some embodiments, the emailing model 220 may predict the messagepriority using the data in the collaboration databases. The emailingmodel 220 may receive the data and employ a parse engine 221, a messageprioritization machine learning engine 222 and an optimizer 223 todeduce a correlation between the data and a most probable messagepriority relative to other messages or relative to how quickly the usershould respond, or both. In some embodiments, each of the parse engine221, message prioritization machine learning engine 222 and theoptimizer 223 may include, e.g., software, hardware or a combinationthereof. For example, in some embodiments, the parse engine 221 mayinclude a processor and a memory, the memory having instructions storedthereon that cause the processor to parse data. In some embodiments, themessage prioritization machine learning engine 222 may include aprocessor and a memory, the memory having instructions stored thereonthat cause the processor to predict message priority from the parseddata. In some embodiments, the optimizer 223 may include a processor anda memory, the memory having instructions stored thereon that cause theprocessor to optimize the parse engine 221 or the message prioritizationmachine learning engine 222 according to, e.g., an error of thepredicted message priority, e.g., based on a user interaction 224.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may transform the data, suchas, e.g., message subject, message recipients, message sender, listedattachments, related calendar events, related tasks, etc., as well asthe user interaction 224 including setting a follow-up flag, a messagecategory flag, or other user interaction 224, into, e.g., featurevectors or feature maps such that the message prioritization machinelearning engine 222 may generate message priority predictions based onfeatures of the data. Thus, in some embodiments, the parse engine 221may receive the data, parse the data, and extract features according toa feature extraction algorithm. Data parsing and feature extraction mayutilize methods depending on a type of data being received. For example,the parse engine 221 may include language parsing when the data includestext and character strings. Thus, in some embodiments, the parse engine221 may include text recognition models including, e.g., a classifierfor natural language recognition. However, in some embodiments, the datamay be a table. In such a case, the parse engine 221 may simply extractfeatures into, e.g., a feature vector directly from the data. However,in some embodiments, the data may include a combination of characterstrings, as well as structured data, such as tables, tuples, lists,arrays, among other. Thus, in some embodiments, the parse engine 221 mayinclude model or algorithm for parsing the character strings and thenextracting feature vectors from the structured data and the parsedcharacter strings.

In some embodiments, the feature extraction algorithm may include, e.g.,independent component analysis, an isomap, kernel principle componentanalysis (PCA), latent semantic analysis, partial least squares,principal component analysis, multifactor dimensionality reduction,nonlinear dimensionality reduction, multilinear PCA, multilinearsubspace learning, semidefinite embedding, autoencoding, among othersand combinations thereof. As a result, the parse engine 221 may generatefeature vectors having, e.g., availability and meeting history features,personnel features, attendee location features, available meeting roomfeatures, or out-of-office features, among other possible features.

In some embodiments, the feature vectors produced by the parse engine221 may be employed by the message prioritization machine learningengine 222 to develop a prediction for a message priority (e.g., on ascale from 1 to 10 with 1 being of greatest priority, or according toany other indication of priority). In some embodiments, the messageprioritization machine learning engine 222 is configured to make atleast one prediction in response to the feature vectors: a messagepriority as presented to the user by a message priority indicator. Insome embodiments, the message prioritization machine learning engine 222may utilize, e.g., classification machine learning techniques to developa prediction from the availability and email history features, personnelfeatures, message sender features, message recipient features, taskfeatures, and calendar event (e.g., meeting, etc.) features for eachmessage. In some embodiments, the result of this prediction processproduces a message priority parameter for each message that correspondto a message priority indicative to a relative priority to address themessage contents for the user. For example, the message priorityparameter may be or be proportional to a degree of priority of theelectronic message, where, e.g., a higher number indicates greaterpriority and lower number indicates lesser priority, or vice versa. Assuch, lists of messages can be formed sorting or filter, or both,electronic messages according to the respective message priorityparameters, e.g., descending in a graphical user interface from greatestpriority messages at a top and least priority at the bottom, or viceversa.

For example, in some embodiments, the message prioritization machinelearning engine 222 may include, e.g., a convolutional neural network(CNN) having multiple convolutional layers to receive a feature mapcomposed of each of the feature vectors, convolutionally weight eachelement of the feature map using the convolutional layers, and generatean output representing both the meeting location parameter and themeeting time parameter.

In some embodiments, the message prioritization machine learning engine222 may then convert the message priority parameter into a messagepriority flag or indicator to present to the user. In some embodiments,the message priority flag or indicator is transmitted to the usercomputer 260 to produce a message priority indication for the user toview at the user computing device 260. The message priority indicationcauses the collaboration system 200 to automatically present the messageto the user at a priority ordered location within a list of messages,where the prioritized order represented the priority of each messagereceived by the user relative to each other message.

In some embodiments, the user may respond to the message via the userinteraction 224 or change the priority of the message via the userinteraction 224. In some embodiments, the user interaction 224 then bereturned to an optimizer 223 that evaluates the message priorityparameter against a ground truth, such as, the behavior of the userrelative to the associated message. Thus, in effect, each response to amessage may be used as feedback into the optimizer 223 to optimize theemailing model 220 for on-line learning. Thus, in some embodiments, theoptimizer 223 may determine an error associated with the predictedmessage priority parameter as compared to the order in which the userresponded to each message or otherwise acted on each message, including,e.g., deleting messages, reordering the prioritized list of messages,changing the message priority indicator for the message, archiving themessage, responding to one or more messages in an order the is the sameor differs from the prioritized list, etc. For example, a user mayreceive a first message with a priority predicted to be lower than thatof a second message (the second message having been received eitherbefore or after the first message). If the user interacts with the firstmessage before the second message, the user acted as though the firstmessage had higher priority, and thus, the optimizer 223 may train themessage prioritization machine learning engine 222 according to theerror resulting from the priority prediction of each of the first andsecond messages. In some embodiments, the optimizer 223 maybackpropagate the error to the parse engine 221, the messageprioritization machine learning engine 222, or both to train each enginein an on-line fashion.

FIG. 3 depicts a diagram of a calendaring model for an exemplaryillustrative automated calendar management system in accordance with anillustrative embodiment of the present invention.

In some embodiments, a collaboration system 200 may initiate anautomated meeting rescheduling process upon receipt of a userinteraction including, e.g., message data 217. In some embodiments, theuser interaction includes an out-of-office message, status or requestprovided by, e.g., a user computing device, such as the user computingdevice 260 or other device, that generates the message data 217. In someembodiments, the message data 217 includes an identification of theassociated user and a date range in which the user is expected to beunavailable. In some embodiments, the message data 217 may include dataformatted for the collaboration system 200 and ready to undergo featureextraction. However, in some embodiments, the message data 217 mayinclude an image, character string, or other unstructured data relatedto the out-of-office message, status or request. In some embodiments,where the message data 217 is unstructured, the parse engine 211 mayparse the date using, e.g., a parsing algorithm such as a naturallanguage recognition model, an image recognition model, or otheralgorithm.

In some embodiments, based on message data 217, the collaboration system200 may pull data from collaboration databases 270 including each of thecalendar database 201, the email database 205, the task database 106, orany combination thereof. In some embodiments, the collaboration system200 pulls data from the collaboration databases 270 based on parametersof the message data representing attributes. For example, the parametersmay represent, e.g., a calendar event attribute that links the messageto a calendar event in the calendar database 201, a personnel attributethat identifies the sender and other recipients of the message formatching to data in the organization database 201, a message subjectattribute including data represented in a subject line or subject tag ofthe message for identifying matching data in the calendar database 201,email database 205 or task database 106, or a combination thereof.Additional attributed may be included, such as, e.g., message body text,dates, linked messages (e.g., messages forwarded with the message data217, replied to by the message data 217, or other functions linking themessage to prior messages), among other information. Accordingly, theparse engine 221 may analyze the message data 217 to identify the abovedescribed attributes, and pull associated data from, e.g., the calendardatabase 201, the email database 205, the task database 106, or anycombination thereof. In some embodiments, the collaboration databases270 are configured to recognize the message attributes or parametersfrom the message data 217 to push matching items to the parse engine221.

In some embodiments, collaboration system 200 may direct the messagedata 217 to the collaboration databases 270. In response to the messagedata 217, each of the calendar database 201, the email database 205, thetask database 106, or any combination thereof may determine data toprovide to the parse engine 221. For example, in some embodiments, thecalendar database 201 may ingest the message data 217 to identifymessage subject parameters from the message subject line or tag and fromthe message body to determine each scheduled meeting associated with theuser that matches the subject. The calendar database 201 may identifythe matching scheduled meetings and determine attendees for eachscheduled meeting. In some embodiments, the calendar database 201 mayalso identify a meeting history associated with the subject, includingscheduled meetings, cancelled meetings, rescheduled meetings, relocatedmeetings, among other meeting history items. In some embodiments, thecalendar database 201 may provide the scheduled meetings, attendees, andmeeting histories to the parse engine 221 as calendar event history data211.

In some embodiments, the organization database 202 may utilize thesenders and recipients identified in the message data 270 to identifypersonnel hierarchy within an associated organization according to,e.g., an organization chart or other data related to personnel hierarchyfor the associated organization. The organization database 202 mayprovide the personnel hierarchy based on the, e.g., organization chart,to the parse engine 221 as personnel data 212 associated with eachsender or recipient of the message.

In some embodiments, the email database 205 may utilize the personneldata 212, subject attributes of the message data 217, or linked messagedata identified in the message data 217, or a combination thereof, todetermine related messages in a message history and associatedhistorical message data and user interaction data for each message inthe message history of the email database 205. For example, the emaildatabase 205 may record receipt times and response times for eachmessage by each sender and recipient of each message. The time betweenreceipt and response or other action on the message may be indicative ofthe priority of the message in the message history, where a shorter timemay indicate higher priority. However, other characteristics may also becorrelated with priority, such as message length. For example, a longermessage may result in a user waiting longer before taking action, e.g.,by taking action on other shorter messages first, thus reducing thestrength of correlation between response time and priority. However, along message that is responded to quickly may be correlated with furtherincreased priority. Similarly, any dates mentioned in the historicalmessages may be combined with the time to take action, the length, bothor neither to factor into priority prediction. Thus, thesecharacteristics and others may be provided to the parse engine 221 ashistorical message data 213 for correlating user interaction patternsrelative to historical messages with priority of the messages.

In some embodiments, the task database 206 may utilize the message data217 to determine subject attributes of the message data 217, or linkedmessage data identified in the message data 217, or a combinationthereof, and identify related tasks, such as, e.g., open work tasks andpriority flags thereof in the task database 206. For example, in someembodiments, the work task database 206 may track work taskcharacteristics, including, e.g., importance or priority data, duedates, start dates, duration, user interactions relative to a task(e.g., progress through time in completing each of one or more stages ofa task), among other characteristics. The characteristics of the worktasks related to or linked to the message may be provided to the parseengine 221 as work task data 216.

For example, by comparing the subject or body text of the message data217 with subjects and names of tasks in the task database 206, the taskdatabase 206 or the parse engine 221 may identify similar or relatedwork tasks. For example, in some embodiments, the work task data 216includes tasks that are related to the message data 217 that may affectthe priority of message based on, e.g., a task due date, a taskpriority, or other task related data. In some embodiments, the work taskdata 216 includes tasks that must be completed in response to themessage or are otherwise related to the message, such as tasks to bereviewed in response to the message. In some embodiments, the work taskdata 216 also includes historical work tasks that are similar to thesubject of the message data 217.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may ingest, e.g., each of thecalendar event data 211, the personnel data 212, the historical messagedata 215 and the work task data 216 and extract features therefrom.Thus, in some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may transform the dataas well as the message data 217 into, e.g., feature vectors or featuremaps to produce input parameters for predicting message priority. Thus,in some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may receive the data, parsethe data, and extract features according to a feature extractionalgorithm. Data parsing and feature extraction may utilize methodsdepending on a type of data being received. For example, the parseengine 221 may include language parsing when the data includes text andcharacter strings, e.g., the subject data and body text data. In someembodiments, the parse engine 221 may include text recognition modelsusing, e.g., a classifier for natural language recognition to identifyand recognize words and phrases in unstructured text or characterstrings. However, in some embodiments, the data may be a table. In sucha case, the parse engine 221 may simply extract features into, e.g., afeature vector directly from the data. However, in some embodiments, thedata may include a combination of character strings, as well asstructured data, such as tables, tuples, lists, arrays, metadata tags orflags, among others. Thus, in some embodiments, the parse engine 221 mayinclude model or algorithm for parsing the character strings and thenextracting feature vectors from the structured data and the parsedcharacter strings.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may also ingest the messagedata 217 to generate message data features 237 representative of themessage data 217 for input into the message prioritization machinelearning engine 222. For example, the parse engine 221 may ingest eachattribute of the message data 217, including, e.g., the sender andrecipient attributes, a time and date attribute, a subject line text, amessage body text, among others and combinations thereof. In someembodiments, the parse engine 221 may identify and extract eachattribute from the message data 217 using suitable parsing algorithms,as described above, to identify, e.g., subjects, projects, tasks, names,etc. described in the subject line or message body or both asrepresented in the message data 217. For example, the parse engine 221may be configured to recognize the subject line of a message and extractinformation represented therein. Thus, the parse engine 221 can produceinput features for the message prioritization machine learning engine222 including message subjects or other concepts contained in themessage. Thus, in some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may includemodel or algorithm for parsing the character strings and then extractingfeature vectors from the structured data and the parsed characterstrings.

In some embodiments, as a result of the parsing and feature extraction,the parse engine 221 may produce calendar event features 231, personnelfeatures 232, historical message features 235, work task features 236,and message features 237 from each of the calendar event data 211, thepersonnel data 212, the historical message data 215, the work task data216 and message data 217, respectively. Accordingly, each set offeatures can provide inputs for correlation to priority by the messageprioritization machine learning engine 222 according to training of asuitable priority model 225, e.g., a classifier, regression model,neural network, or other type of machine learning model.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may extract calendar eventfeatures 231 from the calendar event data 211 using parsing algorithmsfor identifying and extract features characterizing a relationshipbetween each related calendar event with the electronic message data217. For example, the parse engine 221 may identify, e.g., datesassociated with the calendar event and a date of receipt of theelectronic message in the calendar event data 231 and message data 217,respectively. Thus, the parse engine 221 may then determine a temporalproximity between the message receipt and the calendar event data toproduce a feature characterizing how near in time the calendar event is.A temporally near calendar event relative to an electronic message maybe correlated to increased priority of the electronic message. The parseengine 221 may identify and extract other relationships between thecalendar event data 211 and the message data 217, including, e.g.,follow-up flags, attachments to an electronic calendar event or theelectronic message or both, parties invited to the calendar event thatare or are not a recipient or sender of the electronic message, amongother factors. Thus, the parse engine 211 may produce calendar eventfeatures 231 representing relationships between the electronic messageand one or more electronic calendar events.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may extract personnel features232 from the personnel data 212 using parsing algorithms for identifyingand extract features characterizing a relationship between each relatedpersonnel data item of the senders and recipients with the electronicmessage data 217. In some embodiments, a hierarchical position of aperson within an organization may affect the priority of a message. Forexample, a chief executive officer that sends an electronic message mayresult in the electronic message having higher priority for timelyresponse. Thus, the personnel data 212 related to each sender andrecipient of the electronic message may be correlated to priority of theelectronic message, including, e.g. hierarchical position dataindicative of each sender or recipients position within a hierarchicalstructure of an organization, e.g., according to an organizationalchart. The parse engine 211 may identify and extract these features ofthe recipients and senders in the message data 217. Thus, the parseengine 211 may produce personnel features 232 representing relationshipsbetween the electronic message and one or more senders and recipients.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may extract historical messagefeatures 235 from the historical message data 215 using parsingalgorithms for identifying and extract features characterizing arelationship between each related historical message with the electronicmessage data 217. For example, the parse engine 221 may identify, e.g.,dates and times associated with the receipt of the historical messages,dates and times associated with the responses to the historical messagesand a date and time of receipt of the electronic message in the calendarevent data 231 and message data 217, respectively. Thus, the parseengine 221 may then determine historical response behaviors includinghistorical times-to-respond between receipt of a historical message anda sending of a response to the historical message for historicalmessages related to the received electronic message of the message data217. Shorter times-to-respond for historical messages related to thereceived electronic message may be correlated to greater priority, whilelonger times-to-respond may be correlated to lesser priority. However,length and subject of messages may affect to time-to-respond. Thus, theparse engine 221 may also extract length of message text, sender,recipients, and subjects of the related historical messages to createadditional historical message features 235 that, together, may provide acomprehensive, holistic correlation between historical message behaviorsand priority. Thus, the parse engine 211 may produce historical messagefeatures 235 representing relationships between the electronic messageand one or more historical electronic messages, as well as historicaluser behaviors relative to similar messages.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may extract work task features236 from the work task data 216 using parsing algorithms for identifyingand extract features characterizing a relationship between each relatedwork task with the electronic message data 217. For example, the parseengine 221 may identify, e.g., due dates associated with the work taskand a date of receipt of the electronic message in the work task data236 and message data 217, respectively. Thus, the parse engine 221 maythen determine a temporal proximity between the message receipt and thework task data to produce a feature characterizing how near in time thetask due date is. A temporally near task due date relative to anelectronic message may be correlated to increased priority of theelectronic message. The parse engine 221 may identify and extract otherrelationships between the work task data 216 and the message data 217,including, e.g., follow-up flags, documents associated with the worktasks or the electronic message or both, parties included in the worktasks that are or are not a recipient or sender of the electronicmessage, among other factors. Thus, the parse engine 211 may producework task features 236 representing relationships between the electronicmessage and one or more electronic work task records.

In some embodiments, the parse engine 221 may extract calendar eventfeatures 237 from the calendar event data 217.

In some embodiments, the feature extraction algorithm may include, e.g.,independent component analysis, an isomap, kernel principle componentanalysis (PCA), latent semantic analysis, partial least squares,principal component analysis, multifactor dimensionality reduction,nonlinear dimensionality reduction, multilinear PCA, multilinearsubspace learning, semidefinite embedding, autoencoding, among othersand combinations thereof. As a result, the parse engine 221 may generatefeature vectors having, e.g., the calendar event features 231, thepersonnel features 232, the historical message features 235, the worktask features 236, and the message features 237 such that predictivefeatures of message priority can be provided to the messageprioritization machine learning engine 222. In some embodiments, thefeature vectors are aggregated into a feature map prior to modeling inthe message prioritization machine learning engine 222.

In some embodiments, the message prioritization machine learning engine222 receives the calendar event features 231, the personnel features232, the historical message features 235, the work task features 236 andmessage features 237 to model message priority for message received by auser that the user has not yet replied to, e.g., according to themessage history in the email database 205 to predict a prioritization ofmessages and form a list order according to priority. In someembodiments, the message prioritization machine learning engine 222includes a priority model 225.

In some embodiments, the priority model may predict a priority parameter241 indicative of a probability of a given priority level, e.g., on ascale from 0.0 to 0.1, where the predicted value on the scale representsa probability of greatest priority for the message of the message data217, which may be interpreted as proportional to the degree or level ofpriority of the message. In some embodiments, the priority parameter 241is based on a correlation between priority and, e.g., the senders andrecipients of the message, the date of the message, related calendarevents to the message, contents of the message (e.g., topics andsubjects as described above), priority of other related messages,quantity, priority and type of related tasks, among other data, asprovided by, e.g., the calendar event features 231, the personnelfeatures 232, the historical message features 235, the work taskfeatures 236 and message features 237. Thus, in some embodiments, thepriority model 225 including, e.g., a classifier, such as thosedescribed above, may transform the calendar event features 231, thepersonnel features 232, the historical message features 235, the worktask features 236 and message features 237 into a feature vector outputthat may be decoded into the priority parameter 241 representing theprobable degree of priority.

In some embodiments, a list generator 226 of the message prioritizationmachine learning engine 222 may receive the priority parameter 241 togenerate or modify a prioritized list of messages 251 with the messageassociated with the message data 217 based on the priority parameter 241of the message. The prioritized list of messages 251 represents anordered list of messages ordered according to priority parameters ofeach message in the list, where a greater magnitude of the priorityparameter indicates a higher position in the prioritized list ofmessages 251 relative of messages having priority parameters with lowermagnitudes.

In some embodiments, the prioritized list of messages 251 mayautomatically alter, e.g., a messaging graphical user interface (GUI) adisplay at the user computing device 260, such as, e.g., an email GUI,to reflect the priority of messages in the prioritized list of messages251. The alteration to the messaging GUI can include, e.g., modifying alist of messages to include the message associated with the message data217 in a position within the list based on the prioritized list ofmessages 251. Additionally, or alternatively, the message GUI may alsobe caused to depict other indications of priority, such as, e.g., colorcoding based on priority ranges of the priority parameter 241,descriptive wording describing the priority level based on priorityranges, priority flags indicating the level of priority, priority scorecorrelated to the priority parameter 241 value, among other indicationsof priority and combinations thereof. For example, the priority rangescan be a predetermined set of ranges of priority parameter values, suchas, e.g., low priority for values from about, e.g., 0.0 to 0.4, mediumpriority for values from about, e.g., 0.5 to 0.7, and high priority forvalues from about, e.g., 0.8 to 1.0. However, more or fewer ranges forpriority level are contemplated. In some embodiments, the list generator226 may generate multiple separate lists of messages, ordered accordingto priority parameter value, where each list corresponds to a prioritylevel (e.g., low, medium, high). Other techniques for representing therelative priority of each message are also contemplated.

In some embodiments, a user at the user computing device 260 may provideuser interactions 252 in the messaging GUI relative to the prioritizedlist of messages 251. For example, a user may select a message forresponse, select a message for deletion, select a message to ignore,relocate a message in the order of the list, modify a designation ofpriority of a message, or other interactions and combinations thereoffor one or more of the messages in the prioritized list of messages 251.In some embodiments, the user interaction or interactions 252 may affectthe relative priority of the message associated with the message data217 relative to other messages in the prioritized list of messages 251.As a result, the user interaction 252 may effectively correct thepriority of the message, for example, by moving the message up or downin the list, moving another message from above to below, or from belowto above the message in the list, modify a priority value, range, flag,or color indicative of the priority of message, or other action. In sodoing, the user interaction 252 may reclassify the priority of themessage, thus deviating from the predicted priority parameter 241. Themagnitude of this deviation may be correlated to an error in theprediction by the priority model 225.

Therefore, in some embodiments, the user interaction 252 may be providedto an optimizer 223. In some embodiments, the optimizer 223 may comparethe user interaction 252 to the corresponding predicted priorityparameter 241. Based on a difference between the user interaction 252 tothe corresponding predicted priority parameter 241, the optimizer 223may determine an error in the predictions by the message prioritizationmachine learning engine 222. In some embodiments, the optimizer 223backpropagates the error to the message prioritization machine learningengine 222 to train the priority model 225, e.g., in an on-line fashionsuch that each prediction 241 may be used as a training pair with thecorresponding user interaction 252. Thus, the priority model 225 may beupdated as users provide user interactions 252 to continually improvethe priority model 225. In some embodiments, the optimizer 223 mayemploy optimization models including, but not limited to, e.g., gradientdescent, regularization, stochastic gradient descent, Nesterovaccelerated gradient, Adagrad, AdaDelta, adaptive momentum estimation(AdaM), root-mean-square propagation (RMS Prop), among others andcombinations thereof.

In some embodiments, the user interaction 252 may be a second selectionafter an initial selection. For example, where a user initiallyinteracts with the list generator 226 in accordance with the predictedprioritization list 251, the user may later modify the list orindications of priority represented therein by a later or a second userinteraction 252. Thus, the first interaction 252 may reinforce thepriority model 225, e.g., the weights or parameters used by the priority225 to generate the priority parameter 241, while the second may retrainthe weights or parameters. Each user interaction that affects therelative priority of a message may be fed back to the optimizer 223 tofurther train the priority model 225 based on the degree to which eachinteraction changes the priority from the predicted priority parameter241.

In some embodiments, the user interaction 252 or the correspondingmessage and relative priority of the message may be provided to theemailing database 205 to update the message history and message data. Insome embodiment, each user interaction 252 may be added to the messagehistory of a given message affected by the user interaction 252, e.g.,by affected the priority of the message or through a response or otheraction taken relative to the message. Accordingly, the email database205 may be continually updated with information concerning the priorityand user interactions relative to each message associated with the userto better train the priority model 225 according to historical messages.

In some embodiments, upon receipt of each new electronic message, theparse engine 221 and message prioritization machine learning engine 222may update the priority parameters 241 for each message in the list ofmessages to reflect the most up-to-date context of each electronicmessage, including, e.g., proximity to calendar events and work tasks,message histories, personnel information, among other possiblytime-varying data. Accordingly, the messaging GUI at the user computingdevice 260 may be regularly updated such that electronic messages arepresented to reflect a current priority of each message in, e.g., aninbox or other electronic message interface.

FIG. 4 depicts a flow diagram illustrating an exemplary method formessage priority prediction and recommendation according one or moreembodiments of the present invention.

At block 401, receive electronic messages where each electronic messageis associated with a sender and a recipient.

At block 402, utilize a message prioritization machine learning model topredict a current prioritized ordering of the electronic messages basedon parameters 410 associated with each electronic message. For example,the prioritize ordering may be defined by, e.g., a message priorityparameter that may be or be proportional to a degree of priority of theelectronic message. In some embodiments, the message priority parametermay be related to, e.g., a higher number indicating greater priority andlower number indicating lesser priority, or vice versa. As such, theprioritized ordering can be formed by sorting or filter, or both,electronic messages according to the respective message priorityparameters, e.g., descending in a graphical user interface from greatestpriority messages at a top and least priority at the bottom, or viceversa. In some embodiments, the prioritized ordering can form a list ofonly electronic messages having a priority above a particular threshold,such as, e.g., of the 5 or 10 greatest priority electronic messages, orhaving a priority parameter greater than, e.g., 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, or0.9, where the messages below the threshold may be hidden or displayedin a separate list.

In some embodiments, the plurality of parameters include calendar eventparameters 411 that represents a calendar event associated with arespective electronic message, personnel parameters 412 associated withthe sender of the respective electronic message, and message subjectparameters 413 associated with a subject of each electronic message. Insome embodiments, the current prioritized ordering forms an order ofnotification of each electronic message according to a message priorityof each electronic message at a current time. Moreover, in someembodiments, the message priority of each electronic message is based onan interaction history tracking interactions of each sender or recipientor both with messages received prior to the current time (historicalmessages).

At block 403, cause to display the at least one electronic messageaccording to the current prioritized ordering on a screen of computingdevices associated with the recipient of each message, for example, in amessage GUI as described above.

FIG. 5 depicts a block diagram of an exemplary computer-basedsystem/platform 500 in accordance with one or more embodiments of thepresent disclosure. However, not all of these components may be requiredto practice one or more embodiments, and variations in the arrangementand type of the components may be made without departing from the spiritor scope of various embodiments of the present disclosure. In someembodiments, the exemplary inventive computing devices or the exemplaryinventive computing components of the exemplary computer-basedsystem/platform 500 may be configured to manage a large number ofmembers or concurrent transactions, as detailed herein. In someembodiments, the exemplary computer-based system/platform 500 may bebased on a scalable computer or network architecture that incorporatesvaries strategies for assessing the data, caching, searching, ordatabase connection pooling. An example of the scalable architecture isan architecture that is capable of operating multiple servers.

In some embodiments, referring to FIG. 5 , members 502-504 (e.g.,clients) of the exemplary computer-based system/platform 500 may includevirtually any computing device capable of receiving and sending amessage over a network (e.g., cloud network), such as network 505, toand from another computing device, such as servers 506 and 507, eachother, and the like. In some embodiments, the member devices 502 through504 may be personal computers, multiprocessor systems,microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics, network PCs,and the like. In some embodiments, one or more member devices withinmember devices 502-504 may include computing devices that typicallyconnect using a wireless communications medium such as cell phones,smart phones, pagers, walkie talkies, radio frequency (RF) devices,infrared (IR) devices, CBs, integrated devices combining one or more ofthe preceding devices, or virtually any mobile computing device, and thelike. In some embodiments, one or more member devices within memberdevices 502-504 may be devices that are capable of connecting using awired or wireless communication medium such as a PDA, POCKET PC,wearable computer, a laptop, tablet, desktop computer, a netbook, avideo game device, a pager, a smart phone, an ultra-mobile personalcomputer (UMPC), or any other device that is equipped to communicateover a wired or wireless communication medium (e.g., NFC, RFID, NBIOT,3G, 5G, 6G, GSM, GPRS, WiFi, WiMax, CDMA, satellite, ZigBee, etc.). Insome embodiments, one or more member devices within member devices 502through 504 may include may run one or more applications, such asInternet browsers, mobile applications, voice calls, video games,videoconferencing, and email, among others. In some embodiments, one ormore member devices within member devices 502 through 504 may beconfigured to receive and to send web pages, and the like. In someembodiments, an exemplary specifically programmed browser application ofthe present disclosure may be configured to receive and displaygraphics, text, multimedia, and the like, employing virtually any webbased language, including, but not limited to Standard GeneralizedMarkup Language (SMGL), such as HyperText Markup Language (HTML), awireless application protocol (WAP), a Handheld Device Markup Language(HDML), such as Wireless Markup Language (WML), WMLScript, XML,JavaScript, and the like. In some embodiments, a member device withinmember devices 502 through 504 may be specifically programmed by eitherJava, .Net, QT, C, C++ or other suitable programming language. In someembodiments, one or more member devices within member devices 502through 504 may be specifically programmed include or execute anapplication to perform a variety of possible tasks, such as, withoutlimitation, messaging functionality, browsing, searching, playing,streaming or displaying various forms of content, including locallystored or uploaded messages, images or video, or games.

In some embodiments, the exemplary network 505 may provide networkaccess, data transport or other services to any computing device coupledto it. In some embodiments, the exemplary network 505 may include andimplement at least one specialized network architecture that may bebased at least in part on one or more standards set by, for example,without limitation, Global System for Mobile communication (GSM)Association, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and theWorldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) forum. In someembodiments, the exemplary network 505 may implement one or more of aGSM architecture, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) architecture, aUniversal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) architecture, and anevolution of UMTS referred to as Long Term Evolution (LTE). In someembodiments, the exemplary network 505 may include and implement, as analternative or in conjunction with one or more of the above, a WiMAXarchitecture defined by the WiMAX forum. In some embodiments and,optionally, in combination of any embodiment described above or below,the exemplary network 505 may also include, for instance, at least oneof a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), the Internet,a virtual LAN (VLAN), an enterprise LAN, a layer 3 virtual privatenetwork (VPN), an enterprise IP network, or any combination thereof. Insome embodiments and, optionally, in combination of any embodimentdescribed above or below, at least one computer network communicationover the exemplary network 505 may be transmitted based at least in parton one of more communication modes such as but not limited to: NFC,RFID, Narrow Band Internet of Things (NBIOT), ZigBee, 3G, 5G, 6G, GSM,GPRS, WiFi, WiMax, CDMA, satellite and any combination thereof. In someembodiments, the exemplary network 505 may also include mass storage,such as network attached storage (NAS), a storage area network (SAN), acontent delivery network (CDN) or other forms of computer or machinereadable media.

In some embodiments, the exemplary server 506 or the exemplary server507 may be a web server (or a series of servers) running a networkoperating system, examples of which may include but are not limited toMicrosoft Windows Server, Novell NetWare, or Linux. In some embodiments,the exemplary server 506 or the exemplary server 507 may be used for orprovide cloud or network computing. Although not shown in FIG. 5 , insome embodiments, the exemplary server 506 or the exemplary server 507may have connections to external systems like email, SMS messaging, textmessaging, ad content providers, etc. Any of the features of theexemplary server 506 may be also implemented in the exemplary server 507and vice versa.

In some embodiments, one or more of the exemplary servers 506 and 507may be specifically programmed to perform, in non-limiting example, asauthentication servers, search servers, email servers, social networkingservices servers, SMS servers, IM servers, MMS servers, exchangeservers, photo-sharing services servers, advertisement providingservers, financial/banking-related services servers, travel servicesservers, or any similarly suitable service-base servers for users of themember computing devices 501 through 504.

In some embodiments and, optionally, in combination of any embodimentdescribed above or below, for example, one or more exemplary computingmember devices 502 through 504, the exemplary server 506, or theexemplary server 507 may include a specifically programmed softwaremodule that may be configured to send, process, and receive informationusing a scripting language, a remote procedure call, an email, a tweet,Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Message Service (MMS), instantmessaging (IM), internet relay chat (IRC), mIRC, Jabber, an applicationprogramming interface, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) methods,Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), HTTP (HypertextTransfer Protocol), REST (Representational State Transfer), or anycombination thereof.

FIG. 6 depicts a block diagram of another exemplary computer-basedsystem/platform 600 in accordance with one or more embodiments of thepresent disclosure. However, not all of these components may be requiredto practice one or more embodiments, and variations in the arrangementand type of the components may be made without departing from the spiritor scope of various embodiments of the present disclosure. In someembodiments, the member computing devices 602 a, 602 b through 602 nshown each at least includes a computer-readable medium, such as arandom-access memory (RAM) 608 coupled to a processor 610 or FLASHmemory. In some embodiments, the processor 610 may executecomputer-executable program instructions stored in memory 608. In someembodiments, the processor 610 may include a microprocessor, an ASIC, ora state machine. In some embodiments, the processor 610 may include, ormay be in communication with, media, for example computer-readablemedia, which stores instructions that, when executed by the processor610, may cause the processor 610 to perform one or more steps describedherein. In some embodiments, examples of computer-readable media mayinclude, but are not limited to, an electronic, optical, magnetic, orother storage or transmission device capable of providing a processor,such as the processor 610 of client 602 a, with computer-readableinstructions. In some embodiments, other examples of suitable media mayinclude, but are not limited to, a floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, magneticdisk, memory chip, ROM, RAM, an ASIC, a configured processor, alloptical media, all magnetic tape or other magnetic media, or any othermedium from which a computer processor can read instructions. Also,various other forms of computer-readable media may transmit or carryinstructions to a computer, including a router, private or publicnetwork, or other transmission device or channel, both wired andwireless. In some embodiments, the instructions may comprise code fromany computer-programming language, including, for example, C, C++,Visual Basic, Java, Python, Perl, JavaScript, and etc.

In some embodiments, member computing devices 602 a through n may alsocomprise a number of external or internal devices such as a mouse, aCD-ROM, DVD, a physical or virtual keyboard, a display, or other inputor output devices. In some embodiments, examples of member computingdevices 602 a through 602 n (e.g., clients) may be any type ofprocessor-based platforms that are connected to a network 606 such as,without limitation, personal computers, digital assistants, personaldigital assistants, smart phones, pagers, digital tablets, laptopcomputers, Internet appliances, and other processor-based devices. Insome embodiments, member computing devices 602 a through 602 n may bespecifically programmed with one or more application programs inaccordance with one or more principles/methodologies detailed herein. Insome embodiments, member computing devices 602 a through 602 n mayoperate on any operating system capable of supporting a browser orbrowser-enabled application, such as Microsoft™ Windows™, or Linux. Insome embodiments, member computing devices 602 a through 602 n shown mayinclude, for example, personal computers executing a browser applicationprogram such as Microsoft Corporation's Internet Explorer™, AppleComputer, Inc.'s Safari™, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera. In someembodiments, through the member computing client devices 602 a through602 n, users, 612 a through 612 n, may communicate over the exemplarynetwork 606 with each other or with other systems or devices coupled tothe network 606. As shown in FIG. 6 , exemplary server devices 604 and613 may be also coupled to the network 606. In some embodiments, one ormore member computing devices 602 a through 602 n may be mobile clients.

In some embodiments, at least one database of exemplary databases 607and 615 may be any type of database, including a database managed by adatabase management system (DBMS). In some embodiments, an exemplaryDBMS-managed database may be specifically programmed as an engine thatcontrols organization, storage, management, or retrieval of data in therespective database. In some embodiments, the exemplary DBMS-manageddatabase may be specifically programmed to provide the ability to query,backup and replicate, enforce rules, provide security, compute, performchange and access logging, or automate optimization. In someembodiments, the exemplary DBMS-managed database may be chosen fromOracle database, IBM DB2, Adaptive Server Enterprise, FileMaker,Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and a NoSQLimplementation. In some embodiments, the exemplary DBMS-managed databasemay be specifically programmed to define each respective schema of eachdatabase in the exemplary DBMS, according to a particular database modelof the present disclosure which may include a hierarchical model,network model, relational model, object model, or some other suitableorganization that may result in one or more applicable data structuresthat may include fields, records, files, or objects. In someembodiments, the exemplary DBMS-managed database may be specificallyprogrammed to include metadata about the data that is stored.

In some embodiments, the exemplary inventive computer-basedsystems/platforms, the exemplary inventive computer-based devices, orthe exemplary inventive computer-based components of the presentdisclosure may be specifically configured to operate in a cloudcomputing/architecture such as, but not limiting to: infrastructure aservice (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service(SaaS). FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate schematics of exemplary implementationsof the cloud computing/architecture(s) in which the exemplary inventivecomputer-based systems/platforms, the exemplary inventive computer-baseddevices, or the exemplary inventive computer-based components of thepresent disclosure may be specifically configured to operate.

At least some aspects of the present disclosure will now be describedwith reference to the following numbered clauses.

1. A method comprising:

accessing, by at least one processor, a plurality of electronic messagesresiding in an electronic inbox associated with a recipient, wherein theplurality of electronic messages are associated with at least onesender;

utilizing, by the at least one processor, a message prioritizationmachine learning model to predict a current prioritized ordering of theplurality of electronic messages based at least in part on a pluralityof parameters associated with each of the plurality of electronicmessages;wherein the plurality of parameters comprise:i) at least one calendar event parameter that represents a calendarevent associated with a respective electronic message,ii) at least one personnel parameter associated with the sender of therespective electronic message, andiii) at least one message subject parameter associated with a subject ofthe respective electronic message;wherein the current prioritized ordering comprises an order ofnotification of each electronic message of the at least one electronicmessage according to a message priority of each electronic message at acurrent time;wherein the message priority of each respective electronic message ofthe at least one electronic message is based on an interaction historyassociated with historical electronic messages associated with eachrespective sender; andcausing to display, by the at least one processor, the plurality ofelectronic messages according to the current prioritized ordering on ascreen of at least one computing device associated with the recipient.2. The method of clause 1, wherein the interaction history comprises:i) view data representing a time between receiving and opening eachhistorical electronic message of the historical electronic messagesassociated with the sender; andii) a response data representing a time between opening and transmittinga response to each historical electronic message of the historicalelectronic messages associated with the sender.3. The method of clause 1, wherein the message prioritization machinelearning model is trained according to the interaction history tocorrelate a respective message priority with a respective plurality ofparameters associated with each respective historical electronic messageof the historical electronic messages based on the interaction historyassociated with each respective historical electronic message.4. The method of clause 1, wherein the at least one personnel parametercomprises a hierarchical position data representing a hierarchicalposition of the sender within an organization based on a hierarchicalorganization data.5. The method of clause 1, further comprising utilizing, by the at leastone processor, a text recognition model to determine the at least onemessage subject parameter of the respective electronic message based ona text string associated with the subject of the respective electronicmessage.6. The method of clause 1, wherein the at least one calendar eventparameter of the respective electronic message comprises a temporalproximity of the display of each respective at least one electronicmessage to the calendar event associated with the respective electronicmessage.7. The method of clause 6, wherein the current prioritized ordering ofeach respective at least one electronic message dynamically adjustsbased on the temporal proximity of each respective calendar event.8. The method of clause 1, further comprising utilizing, by the at leastone processor, the message prioritization machine learning model topredict an updated prioritized ordering of the at least one electronicmessage based on one or more user interactions associated with the atleast one electronic message.9. The method of clause 8, wherein:the one or more user interactions comprises a read indication associatedwith one or more electronic messages of the at least one electronicmessages; andthe read indication represents that the recipient has read the one ormore electronic messages.10. The method of clause 8, wherein the updated prioritized ordering ispredicted upon each user interaction of the one or more userinteractions.11. A method comprising:receiving, by at least one processor, a plurality of electronic messagesresiding in an electronic inbox associated with a recipient, wherein theplurality of electronic messages are associated with at least onesender;generating, by the at least one processor, a set of message dataassociated with each of the plurality of electronic messages;wherein each respective set of message data comprises:i) at least one sender indicator representing the respective sender ofeach respective at least one electronic message, andii) at least one message subject indicator representing a respectivesubject of each respective at least one electronic message;transmitting, by the at least one processor, each respective set ofmessage data to a message prioritization system;wherein the message prioritization system comprises at least one messageprioritization processor configured to:utilize a message prioritization machine learning model to predict acurrent prioritized ordering of the plurality of electronic messagesbased at least in part on a plurality of parameters associated with eachof the each of the plurality of electronic messages;wherein the plurality of parameters comprise:i) at least one calendar event parameter that represents a calendarevent associated with a respective electronic message,ii) at least one personnel parameter associated with the at least onesender indicator of each respective electronic message, andiii) at least one message subject parameter associated with the at leastone message subject indicator of each respective electronic message;wherein the current prioritized ordering comprises an order ofnotification of each electronic message of the plurality of electronicmessages according to a message priority of each electronic message at acurrent time;wherein the message priority of each respective electronic message ofthe plurality of electronic messages is based on an interaction historyassociated with historical electronic messages associated with eachrespective sender; andtransmit the current prioritized ordering to the at least one processor;andcausing to display, by the at least one processor, the plurality ofelectronic messages according to the current prioritized ordering on ascreen in communication with the at least one processor.12. The method of clause 11, wherein the interaction history comprises:i) view data representing a time between receiving and opening eachhistorical electronic message of the historical electronic messagesassociated with the sender; andii) a response data representing a time between opening and transmittinga response to each historical electronic message of the historicalelectronic messages associated with the sender.13. The method of clause 11, wherein the message prioritization machinelearning model is trained according to the interaction history tocorrelate a respective message priority with a respective plurality ofparameters associated with each respective historical electronic messageof the historical electronic messages based on the interaction historyassociated with each respective historical electronic message.14. The method of clause 11, wherein the at least one personnelparameter comprises a hierarchical position data representing ahierarchical position of the sender within an organization based on ahierarchical organization data.15. The method of clause 11, wherein the at least one messageprioritization processor is further configured to utilize a textrecognition model to determine the at least one message subjectparameter of the respective electronic message based on a text stringassociated with the at least one subject indicator of the respectiveelectronic message.16. The method of clause 11, wherein the at least one calendar eventparameter of the respective electronic message comprises a temporalproximity of the display of each respective at least one electronicmessage to the calendar event associated with the respective electronicmessage.17. The method of clause 16, wherein the current prioritized ordering ofeach respective electronic message of the plurality of electronicmessages dynamically adjusts based on the temporal proximity of eachrespective calendar event.18. The method of clause 11, wherein the at least one messageprioritization processor is further configured to utilize the messageprioritization machine learning model to predict an updated prioritizedordering of the plurality of electronic messages based on one or moreuser interactions associated with the at least one electronic message.19. The method of clause 18, wherein:the one or more user interactions comprises a read indication associatedwith one or more electronic messages of the at least one electronicmessages; andthe read indication represents that the recipient has read the one ormore electronic messages.20. A system comprising:a non-transitory computer-readable memory having instructions storedthereon; andat least one processor in communication with the non-transitorycomputer-readable memory and configured to perform the instructionscomprising:access a plurality of electronic messages residing in an electronicinbox associated with a recipient, wherein the plurality of electronicmessages are associated with at least one sender;utilize a message prioritization machine learning model to predict acurrent prioritized ordering of the plurality of electronic messagesbased at least in part on a plurality of parameters associated with eachof the plurality of electronic messages;wherein the plurality of parameters comprise:i) at least one calendar event parameter that represents a calendarevent associated with a respective electronic message,ii) at least one personnel parameter associated with the sender of therespective electronic message, andiii) at least one message subject parameter associated with a subject ofthe respective electronic message;wherein the current prioritized ordering comprises an order ofnotification of each electronic message of the at least one electronicmessage according to a message priority of each electronic message at acurrent time;wherein the message priority of each respective electronic message ofthe at least one electronic message is based on an interaction historyassociated with historical electronic messages associated with eachrespective sender; and

cause to display the plurality of electronic messages according to thecurrent prioritized ordering on a screen of at least one computingdevice associated with the recipient. Various detailed embodiments ofthe present disclosure, taken in conjunction with the accompanyingfigures, are disclosed herein; however, it is to be understood that thedisclosed embodiments are merely illustrative. In addition, each of theexamples given in connection with the various embodiments of the presentdisclosure is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive.

Throughout the specification, the following terms take the meaningsexplicitly associated herein, unless the context clearly dictatesotherwise. The phrases “in one embodiment” and “in some embodiments” asused herein do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment(s), thoughit may. Furthermore, the phrases “in another embodiment” and “in someother embodiments” as used herein do not necessarily refer to adifferent embodiment, although it may. Thus, as described below, variousembodiments may be readily combined, without departing from the scope orspirit of the present disclosure.

In addition, the term “based on” is not exclusive and allows for beingbased on additional factors not described, unless the context clearlydictates otherwise. In addition, throughout the specification, themeaning of “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural references. The meaningof “in” includes “in” and “on.”

It is understood that at least one aspect/functionality of variousembodiments described herein can be performed in real-time ordynamically. As used herein, the term “real-time” is directed to anevent/action that can occur instantaneously or almost instantaneously intime when another event/action has occurred. For example, the “real-timeprocessing,” “real-time computation,” and “real-time execution” allpertain to the performance of a computation during the actual time thatthe related physical process (e.g., a user interacting with anapplication on a mobile device) occurs, in order that results of thecomputation can be used in guiding the physical process.

As used herein, the term “dynamically” and term “automatically,” andtheir logical or linguistic relatives or derivatives, mean that certainevents or actions can be triggered or occur without any humanintervention. In some embodiments, events or actions in accordance withthe present disclosure can be in real-time or based on a predeterminedperiodicity of at least one of: nanosecond, several nanoseconds,millisecond, several milliseconds, second, several seconds, minute,several minutes, hourly, several hours, daily, several days, weekly,monthly, etc.

As used herein, the term “runtime” corresponds to any behavior that isdynamically determined during an execution of a software application orat least a portion of software application.

In some embodiments, exemplary inventive, specially programmed computingsystems/platforms with associated devices are configured to operate inthe distributed network environment, communicating with one another overone or more suitable data communication networks (e.g., the Internet,satellite, etc.) and utilizing one or more suitable data communicationprotocols/modes such as, without limitation, IPX/SPX, X.25, AX.25,AppleTalk™, TCP/IP (e.g., HTTP), near-field wireless communication(NFC), RFID, Narrow Band Internet of Things (NBIOT), 3G, 4G, 5G, GSM,GPRS, WiFi, WiMax, CDMA, satellite, ZigBee, and other suitablecommunication modes. In some embodiments, the NFC can represent ashort-range wireless communications technology in which NFC-enableddevices are “swiped,” “bumped,” “tap” or otherwise moved in closeproximity to communicate. In some embodiments, the NFC could include aset of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distanceof 10 cm or less. In some embodiments, the NFC may operate at 13.56 MHzon ISO/IEC 18000-3 air interface and at rates ranging from 106 kbit/s to424 kbit/s. In some embodiments, the NFC can involve an initiator and atarget; the initiator actively generates an RF field that can power apassive target. In some embodiment, this can enable NFC targets to takevery simple form factors such as tags, stickers, key fobs, or cards thatdo not require batteries. In some embodiments, the NF's peer-to-peercommunication can be conducted when a plurality of NFC-enable devices(e.g., smartphones) within close proximity of each other.

The material disclosed herein may be implemented in software or firmwareor a combination of them or as instructions stored on a machine-readablemedium, which may be read and executed by one or more processors. Amachine-readable medium may include any medium or mechanism for storingor transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., acomputing device). For example, a machine-readable medium may includeread only memory (ROM); random access memory (RAM); magnetic diskstorage media; optical storage media; flash memory devices; electrical,optical, acoustical or other forms of propagated signals (e.g., carrierwaves, infrared signals, digital signals, etc.), and others.

As used herein, the terms “computer engine” and “engine” identify atleast one software component or a combination of at least one softwarecomponent and at least one hardware component which aredesigned/programmed/configured to manage/control other software orhardware components (such as the libraries, software development kits(SDKs), objects, etc.).

Examples of hardware elements may include processors, microprocessors,circuits, circuit elements (e.g., transistors, resistors, capacitors,inductors, and so forth), integrated circuits, application specificintegrated circuits (ASIC), programmable logic devices (PLD), digitalsignal processors (DSP), field programmable gate array (FPGA), logicgates, registers, semiconductor device, chips, microchips, chip sets,and so forth. In some embodiments, the one or more processors may beimplemented as a Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) or ReducedInstruction Set Computer (RISC) processors; x86 instruction setcompatible processors, multi-core, or any other microprocessor orcentral processing unit (CPU). In various implementations, the one ormore processors may be dual-core processor(s), dual-core mobileprocessor(s), and so forth.

Examples of software may include software components, programs,applications, computer programs, application programs, system programs,machine programs, operating system software, middleware, firmware,software modules, routines, subroutines, functions, methods, procedures,software interfaces, application program interfaces (API), instructionsets, computing code, computer code, code segments, computer codesegments, words, values, symbols, or any combination thereof.Determining whether an embodiment is implemented using hardware elementsor software elements may vary in accordance with any number of factors,such as desired computational rate, power levels, heat tolerances,processing cycle budget, input data rates, output data rates, memoryresources, data bus speeds and other design or performance constraints.

One or more aspects of at least one embodiment may be implemented byrepresentative instructions stored on a machine-readable medium whichrepresents various logic within the processor, which when read by amachine causes the machine to fabricate logic to perform the techniquesdescribed herein. Such representations, known as “IP cores” may bestored on a tangible, machine readable medium and supplied to variouscustomers or manufacturing facilities to load into the fabricationmachines that make the logic or processor. Of note, various embodimentsdescribed herein may, of course, be implemented using any appropriatehardware or computing software languages (e.g., C++, Objective-C, Swift,Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, QT, etc.).

In some embodiments, one or more of exemplary inventive computer-basedsystems of the present disclosure may include or be incorporated,partially or entirely into at least one personal computer (PC), laptopcomputer, ultra-laptop computer, tablet, touch pad, portable computer,handheld computer, palmtop computer, personal digital assistant (PDA),cellular telephone, combination cellular telephone/PDA, television,smart device (e.g., smart phone, smart tablet or smart television),wearable device, mobile internet device (MID), messaging device, datacommunication device, and so forth.

As used herein, term “server” should be understood to refer to a servicepoint which provides processing, database, and communication facilities.By way of example, and not limitation, the term “server” can refer to asingle, physical processor with associated communications and datastorage and database facilities, or it can refer to a networked orclustered complex of processors and associated network and storagedevices, as well as operating software and one or more database systemsand application software that support the services provided by theserver. Cloud servers are examples.

In some embodiments, as detailed herein, one or more of exemplaryinventive computer-based systems of the present disclosure may obtain,manipulate, transfer, store, transform, generate, or output any digitalobject or data unit (e.g., from inside or outside of a particularapplication) that can be in any suitable form such as, withoutlimitation, a file, a contact, a task, an email, a tweet, a map, anentire application (e.g., a calculator), etc.

In some embodiments, exemplary inventive computer-based systems of thepresent disclosure may be configured to utilize hardwired circuitry thatmay be used in place of or in combination with software instructions toimplement features consistent with principles of the disclosure. Thus,implementations consistent with principles of the disclosure are notlimited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.For example, various embodiments may be embodied in many different waysas a software component such as, without limitation, a stand-alonesoftware package, a combination of software packages, or it may be asoftware package incorporated as a “tool” in a larger software product.

For example, exemplary software specifically programmed in accordancewith one or more principles of the present disclosure may bedownloadable from a network, for example, a website, as a stand-aloneproduct or as an add-in package for installation in an existing softwareapplication. For example, exemplary software specifically programmed inaccordance with one or more principles of the present disclosure mayalso be available as a client-server software application, or as aweb-enabled software application. For example, exemplary softwarespecifically programmed in accordance with one or more principles of thepresent disclosure may also be embodied as a software package installedon a hardware device.

In some embodiments, exemplary inventive computer-based systems of thepresent disclosure may be configured to handle numerous concurrent usersthat may be, but is not limited to, at least 100 (e.g., but not limitedto, 100-999), at least 1,000 (e.g., but not limited to, 1,000-9,999), atleast 10,000 (e.g., but not limited to, 10,000-99,999), at least 100,000(e.g., but not limited to, 100,000-999,999), at least 1,000,000 (e.g.,but not limited to, 1,000,000-9,999,999), at least 10,000,000 (e.g., butnot limited to, 10,000,000-99,999,999), at least 100,000,000 (e.g., butnot limited to, 100,000,000-999,999,999), at least 1,000,000,000 (e.g.,but not limited to, 1,000,000,000-999,999,999,999), and so on.

In some embodiments, exemplary inventive computer-based systems of thepresent disclosure may be configured to output to distinct, specificallyprogrammed graphical user interface implementations of the presentdisclosure (e.g., a desktop, a web app., etc.). In variousimplementations of the present disclosure, a final output may bedisplayed on a displaying screen which may be, without limitation, ascreen of a computer, a screen of a mobile device, or the like. Invarious implementations, the display may be a holographic display. Invarious implementations, the display may be a transparent surface thatmay receive a visual projection. Such projections may convey variousforms of information, images, or objects. For example, such projectionsmay be a visual overlay for a mobile augmented reality (MAR)application.

In some embodiments, exemplary inventive computer-based systems of thepresent disclosure may be configured to be utilized in variousapplications which may include, but not limited to, gaming,mobile-device games, video chats, video conferences, live videostreaming, video streaming or augmented reality applications,mobile-device messenger applications, and others similarly suitablecomputer-device applications.

As used herein, the term “mobile electronic device,” or the like, mayrefer to any portable electronic device that may or may not be enabledwith location tracking functionality (e.g., MAC address, InternetProtocol (IP) address, or the like). For example, a mobile electronicdevice can include, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, PersonalDigital Assistant (PDA), Blackberry™, Pager, Smartphone, or any otherreasonable mobile electronic device.

As used herein, terms “proximity detection,” “locating,” “locationdata,” “location information,” and “location tracking” refer to any formof location tracking technology or locating method that can be used toprovide a location of, for example, a particular computingdevice/system/platform of the present disclosure or any associatedcomputing devices, based at least in part on one or more of thefollowing techniques/devices, without limitation: accelerometer(s),gyroscope(s), Global Positioning Systems (GPS); GPS accessed usingBluetooth™; GPS accessed using any reasonable form of wireless ornon-wireless communication; WiFi™ server location data; Bluetooth™ basedlocation data; triangulation such as, but not limited to, network basedtriangulation, WiFi™ server information based triangulation, Bluetooth™server information based triangulation; Cell Identification basedtriangulation, Enhanced Cell Identification based triangulation,Uplink-Time difference of arrival (U-TDOA) based triangulation, Time ofarrival (TOA) based triangulation, Angle of arrival (AOA) basedtriangulation; techniques and systems using a geographic coordinatesystem such as, but not limited to, longitudinal and latitudinal based,geodesic height based, Cartesian coordinates based; Radio FrequencyIdentification such as, but not limited to, Long range RFID, Short rangeRFID; using any form of RFID tag such as, but not limited to active RFIDtags, passive RFID tags, battery assisted passive RFID tags; or anyother reasonable way to determine location. For ease, at times the abovevariations are not listed or are only partially listed; this is in noway meant to be a limitation.

As used herein, terms “cloud,” “Internet cloud,” “cloud computing,”“cloud architecture,” and similar terms correspond to at least one ofthe following: (1) a large number of computers connected through areal-time communication network (e.g., Internet); (2) providing theability to run a program or application on many connected computers(e.g., physical machines, virtual machines (VMs)) at the same time; (3)network-based services, which appear to be provided by real serverhardware, and are in fact served up by virtual hardware (e.g., virtualservers), simulated by software running on one or more real machines(e.g., allowing to be moved around and scaled up (or down) on the flywithout affecting the end user).

In some embodiments, the exemplary inventive computer-basedsystems/platforms, the exemplary inventive computer-based devices, orthe exemplary inventive computer-based components of the presentdisclosure may be configured to securely store or transmit data byutilizing one or more of encryption techniques (e.g., private/public keypair, Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES), block cipher algorithms(e.g., IDEA, RC2, RCS, CAST and Skipjack), cryptographic hash algorithms(e.g., MD5, RIPEMD-160, RTRO, SHA-1, SHA-2, Tiger (TTH), WHIRLPOOL,RNGs).

The aforementioned examples are, of course, illustrative and notrestrictive.

As used herein, the term “user” shall have a meaning of at least oneuser. In some embodiments, the terms “user”, “subscriber” “consumer” or“customer” should be understood to refer to a user of an application orapplications as described herein or a consumer of data supplied by adata provider. By way of example, and not limitation, the terms “user”or “subscriber” can refer to a person who receives data provided by thedata or service provider over the Internet in a browser session, or canrefer to an automated software application which receives the data andstores or processes the data.

As used herein, the terms “and” and “or” may be used interchangeably torefer to a set of items in both the conjunctive and disjunctive in orderto encompass the full description of combinations and alternatives ofthe items. By way of example, a set of items may be listed with thedisjunctive “or”, or with the conjunction “and.” In either case, the setis to be interpreted as meaning each of the items singularly asalternatives, as well as any combination of the listed items.

While one or more embodiments of the present disclosure have beendescribed, it is understood that these embodiments are illustrativeonly, and not restrictive, and that many modifications may becomeapparent to those of ordinary skill in the art, including that variousembodiments of the inventive methodologies, the inventivesystems/platforms, and the inventive devices described herein can beutilized in any combination with each other. Further still, the varioussteps may be carried out in any desired order (and any desired steps maybe added or any desired steps may be eliminated).

The invention claimed is:
 1. A method comprising: rendering, by at leastone processor, an electronic messaging interface of an electronicmessaging software application; wherein the electronic messagingsoftware application is configured to receive a plurality of electronicmessages; wherein the plurality of electronic messages is associatedwith at least one sender and an electronic message text; wherein theelectronic messaging interface comprises a prioritized electronicmessage list that displays the plurality of electronic messages in anorder according to a current prioritized ordering of the plurality ofelectronic messages; wherein the electronic messaging softwareapplication is configured to dynamically update the current prioritizedordering of the plurality of electronic messages by: accessing, by theat least one processor, a plurality of collaboration data objectsresiding in at least one collaboration database; wherein the pluralityof collaboration data objects are associated with at least one user andat least one collaboration text; wherein the plurality of collaborationdata objects comprises at least one of: at least one electronic worktask object, at least one additional electronic message, or at least onepersonnel data record associated with the at least one user;determining, by the at least one processor, at least one collaborationdata object of the plurality of collaboration data objects associatedwith at least one electronic message of the plurality of electronicmessages based at least in part on a matching of: the at least onesender with the at least one user, and the electronic message text withthe at least one collaboration text; utilizing, by the at least oneprocessor, a message prioritization machine learning model to predict anupdated prioritized ordering of the plurality of electronic messagesbased at least in part on at least one parameter associated with each ofthe plurality of electronic messages; wherein the at least one parametercomprises at least one collaboration data object parameter thatrepresents the at least one collaboration data object associated with arespective electronic message, wherein the updated prioritized orderingcomprises an order of notification of each electronic message of the atleast one electronic message according to a message priority of eachelectronic message at a current time; and updating, by the at least oneprocessor, the electronic messaging interface to update the prioritizedelectronic message list according to the updated prioritized ordering.2. The method of claim 1, wherein the message priority of eachrespective electronic message of the at least one electronic message isbased on an interaction history associated with historical electronicmessages associated with each respective sender; and wherein theinteraction history comprises: i) view data representing a time betweenreceiving and opening each historical electronic message of thehistorical electronic messages associated with the at least one sender;and ii) a response data representing a time between opening andtransmitting a response to each historical electronic message of thehistorical electronic messages associated with the at least one sender.3. The method of claim 1, wherein the message prioritization machinelearning model is trained according to an interaction history tocorrelate a respective message priority with a respective at least oneparameter associated with each respective historical electronic messageof the historical electronic messages based on the interaction historyassociated with each respective historical electronic message.
 4. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at leastone personnel parameter comprises a hierarchical position datarepresenting a hierarchical position of the at least one sender withinan organization based on a hierarchical organization data.
 5. The methodof claim 1, further comprising utilizing, by the at least one processor,a text recognition model to determine at least one message subjectparameter of the respective electronic message based on a text stringassociated with a subject of the respective electronic message.
 6. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the at least one collaboration objectparameter of the respective electronic message comprises a temporalproximity of the display of each respective at least one electronicmessage to a calendar event associated with the respective electronicmessage.
 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the current prioritizedordering of each respective at least one electronic message dynamicallyadjusts based on the temporal proximity of each respective calendarevent.
 8. The method of claim 1, further comprising utilizing, by the atleast one processor, the message prioritization machine learning modelto predict an updated prioritized ordering of the at least oneelectronic message based on one or more user interactions associatedwith the at least one electronic message.
 9. The method of claim 8,wherein: the one or more user interactions comprises a read indicationassociated with one or more electronic messages of the at least oneelectronic messages; and the read indication represents that a recipienthas read the one or more electronic messages.
 10. The method of claim 8,wherein the updated prioritized ordering is predicted upon each userinteraction of the one or more user interactions.
 11. A systemcomprising: at least one processor in communication with at least onenon-transitory computer readable medium having software instructionsstored therein, wherein, upon execution of the software instructions,the at least one processor is configured to: render electronic messaginginterface of an electronic messaging software application; wherein theelectronic messaging software application is configured to receive aplurality of electronic messages; wherein the plurality of electronicmessages is associated with at least one sender and an electronicmessage text; wherein the electronic messaging interface comprises aprioritized electronic message list that displays the plurality ofelectronic messages in an order according to a current prioritizedordering of the plurality of electronic messages; wherein the electronicmessaging software application is configured to dynamically update thecurrent prioritized ordering of the plurality of electronic messages by:access a plurality of collaboration data objects residing in at leastone collaboration database; wherein the plurality of collaboration dataobjects are associated with at least one user and at least onecollaboration text; wherein the plurality of collaboration data objectscomprises at least one of: at least one electronic work task object, atleast one additional electronic message, or at least one personnel datarecord associated with the at least one user; determine at least onecollaboration data object of the plurality of collaboration data objectsassociated with at least one electronic message of the plurality ofelectronic messages based at least in part on a matching of: the atleast one sender with the at least one user, and the electronic messagetext with the at least one collaboration text; utilize a messageprioritization machine learning model to predict an updated prioritizedordering of the plurality of electronic messages based at least in parton at least one parameter associated with each of the plurality ofelectronic messages; wherein the at least one parameter comprises atleast one collaboration data object parameter that represents the atleast one collaboration data object associated with a respectiveelectronic message, wherein the updated prioritized ordering comprisesan order of notification of each electronic message of the at least oneelectronic message according to a message priority of each electronicmessage at a current time; and update the electronic messaging interfaceto update the prioritized electronic message list according to theupdated prioritized ordering.
 12. The system of claim 11, wherein themessage priority of each respective electronic message of the at leastone electronic message is based on an interaction history associatedwith historical electronic messages associated with each respectivesender; and wherein the interaction history comprises: i) view datarepresenting a time between receiving and opening each historicalelectronic message of the historical electronic messages associated withthe at least one sender; and ii) a response data representing a timebetween opening and transmitting a response to each historicalelectronic message of the historical electronic messages associated withthe at least one sender.
 13. The system of claim 11, wherein the messageprioritization machine learning model is trained according to aninteraction history to correlate a respective message priority with arespective at least one parameter associated with each respectivehistorical electronic message of the historical electronic messagesbased on the interaction history associated with each respectivehistorical electronic message.
 14. The system of claim 11, wherein theat least one parameter comprises at least one personnel parametercomprises a hierarchical position data representing a hierarchicalposition of the at least one sender within an organization based on ahierarchical organization data.
 15. The system of claim 11, wherein theat least one processor is configured to utilize a text recognition modelto determine at least one message subject parameter of the respectiveelectronic message based on a text string associated with a subject ofthe respective electronic message.
 16. The system of claim 11, whereinthe at least one collaboration object parameter of the respectiveelectronic message comprises a temporal proximity of the display of eachrespective at least one electronic message to a calendar eventassociated with the respective electronic message.
 17. The system ofclaim 16, wherein the current prioritized ordering of each respective atleast one electronic message dynamically adjusts based on the temporalproximity of each respective calendar event.
 18. The system of claim 11,wherein the at least one processor is configured to utilize the messageprioritization machine learning model to predict an updated prioritizedordering of the at least one electronic message based on one or moreuser interactions associated with the at least one electronic message.19. The system of claim 18, wherein: the one or more user interactionscomprises a read indication associated with one or more electronicmessages of the at least one electronic messages; and the readindication represents that a recipient has read the one or moreelectronic messages.
 20. The system of claim 18, wherein the updatedprioritized ordering is predicted upon each user interaction of the oneor more user interactions.